D's Kemmer Curs
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Location: Floresville, TX
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01-03-14 hog hunt with Kemmers
Payday arrived on Friday which meant diesel money!
Same crew, Tracy, Emily, and I along with the four Kemmers, Jack, Ty, Heather, & Lilly.
We hunted one area hard that was supposedly showing a lot of hog rooting but about wore the dogs out searching for any hogs and came up empty. I think they must be traveling to this area at night as we flat covered the area and dogs didn't hit on anything.
We loaded them up and headed to an area known to hold beddding hogs and sure enough they got a small sow bayed up in a thicket. It was too thick to video the action, so we had to settle for a dead pig shot afterwards. Emily got her knife wet several times today, this was just the first.
Ole Murphy came today as well
I realized on that first hog that Ty's collar had stopped working so I had no signal from him and was worried about him going off and we not knowing where he was at, so I decided to keep him on the atv unless needed at a bay.
After this hog, we loaded them up and went about a mile away to another area that will hold hogs and is next to wet creek. It's not a big thicket, maybe 4 acres, but the hogs love it.
Jack, Heather, & Lilly ran into the wind, disappeared in the thicket and opened up bayed within 2 minutes of me dropping them. I think they winded the hogs as soon as I turned them loose and the hogs were a good 400 yards away. Once they were bayed, I turned Ty out to them.
As we are getting close, a 200+lb sow ran across in front of me, so she was making her escape as the dogs had at least one more bayed in the thicket. We were walking the bulldogs in on leashes, got fairly close, and turned them loose. Hogs broke and the chase was on, with two catchdogs in with the Kemmers. They broke out of the thicket on the opposite side and we could hear a caught hog. We ran back to the atvs and had to race around the thicket and in so doing had another big hog run across in front of us. We continued on to the caught hog and found that they had caught it in the wet creek, out in the open. Emily and I crossed the creek and took care of the hog, while Tracy proceeded to step into a boggy spot and promptly got buried in silt up to his knees. He was stuck! We put a leash on Jack and Ty, got Tracy unstuck, took a quick pic, and put Jack & Ty on the atvs.
I was debating on whether we should try and go after the runners or just call it a day, since Ty's collar was DOA? I thought, 'let's see if these young dogs can work out one of tracks from the escaping hogs?' so I took them back over to that area. I think Lilly picked it up first, but Heather was right behind her? They hit a track, barked a couple of times, and dissappered into the thicket, so I turned Jack out and within seconds we had another bay going on. We took off to them and could tell the hog was running. The hog broke out of the thicket heading north across an open field and I turned Ty out to them. The hog couldn't out run the Kemmers and we pulled up to a beautiful bay going on out in the wide open field. :cool0010:
Video and pics below.
This was hog #3 for the day and I didn't want to take a chance on Ty getting out with a working collar so we grabbed him up and called it a day. They were wore out anyway, so it was a great hunt and put us off on the right foot for the new year.
And I'm not sure why my video is so grainy now? I think the Image Stablization is not working or something?
http://s174.photobucket.com/user/bushwacke...2014-1.mp4.html
And a pack of Kemmers that deserves a good nights rest and full feed bowls!
As a side note, I always tell people that my Kemmers are not that rough and gritty and that I want them that way for a reason. Actually, several reasons; less medical expenses, longer & healthier life spans, and as this hunt proves, more time hunting and less time healing. This was their 3rd hunt in 9 days, not a scratch, not a poke, nothing. And I could have hunted them more if it weren't for the cost of fuel and other family committments we had during the holidays. And hopefully we'll have them back out there again within the next 3 days as well.
Emily, my 12 year old, even made the comment before we left to go on this hunt about how nice it is that we can hunt these dogs more than we could our dogs that we ran in the past.
Some may want or need a rough, gritty strike dog and that's fine, to each their own. But for me, these dogs have just the right amount of grit, as evidenced by the video, to get the job done for me and still be able to hunt the next day.
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D's Kemmer Curs
Hunting hogs in South Texas with Kemmer Stock Mt. Curs
Dogs I own came from;
Charles Fasola (LA)
Charles Pounds (MS)
www.kemmercurs.com/
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